British Nationality
Commons · Question 42888 · Tabled 31 Mar 2025 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Question
Asked by Euan Stainbank
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria she plans to use in applying her discretionary powers to give an exception to the current ban on citizenship being granted to an asylum seeker who has arrived irregularly.
Answer
Answered by Seema Malhotra, 8 Apr 2025
We have strengthened measures to make it clear that anyone who enters the UK illegally or who arrives without a required valid entry clearance or electronic valid authorisation having made a dangerous journey, including small boat arrivals, faces having a...